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Who doesn’t love a street fair?! Especially, when one doesn’t have to park (for me anyway, we walked!) Fun things that don’t involve parking are a rare and precious commodity in the City of Angels, so let’s appreciate them when we can, shall we?

So! Since we are celebrating all things Los Feliz, I thought I would share some of my favorite things in the neighborhood.

Some of my favorites, in no particular order:

1. SPITFIRE GIRL – There are two, one in Los Feliz and one in Silverlake. It is a sweet little shop consisting of miscellaneous knick-knacks, ranging from cool and innovative jewelry to household items to chachkies for the kidies. It’s very awesome and I’ve bought all sorts of lovely pieces from this establishment…

2. PARADIS – Specialty ice cream. What the what, you say?! Yes. Exactly as wonderful and fantastic as it sounds. Whenever a shop closes in my area, I get VERY excited dreaming about what the next place to open will be – in this case, a very bland pinkberry closed and opened into an ice cream wonderland of happiness…for me. It’s fresh, clean, and lovely to eat –

3. MUSTARD SEED CAFÉ – This is my favorite brunch spot. The food is great and they have a slew of choices. My favorites are the Greek Scramble and BBQ Chicken Quesadilla.

4. CO-OP 28 HANDMADE – This store sells jewelry and other handmade items made by local artists. It’s interior design is fantastic and makes me want the delightful woman who owns it to come and fix up my apartment.

5. COVELL – I have nothing but positive things to say about this wine bar (they usually have a handful of fantastic beer on tap as well). The bartenders are always smiling, friendly and wanting to make your experience better. Since I know next to nothing about wine, except it comes in different colors and I like it, I appreciate the fact that they don’t speak condescendingly to me. When you get up to the bar they ask what kind of wine you like, pour you a taste and if you like it, they finish pouring the glass, if not, they ask you additional questions to help fine tune what they should pour you next…

6. MOTHER DOUGH – I love this Neapolitan pizza joint. Their pizzas are amazing and a little out of the ordinary. I will always order the Zucchini Pizza and Burrata Salad – wonderful.

7. SKYLIGHT BOOKS – A splendid independent bookstore that even comes with it’s own store cat. I continuously go here to buy gifts, books and whatever else they happen to be peddling.

8. DRAWING ROOM – I finish with Drawing Room, because this is usually where we finish the night. We always always always always end up at Drawing Room. This could possibly be my most favorite shitty bar that has ever existed. It’s dark, cheap, has a great jukebox and a man that sells Trunk Tamales out of his (you guessed it) trunk in the parking lot. I’ll tell you what – when 2 a.m. strolls around and you can’t remember the last time you ate, that Trunk Tamales man seems like a little Mexican angel sent from the heavens to help you with tomorrow’s hangover. The jukebox is genius – David Bowie, Prince, Otis Redding, Thin Lizzy – and everything else you could imagine…this bar is holding some prime real estate in my heart.

If you’re familiar with the Los Feliz area at all, you may notice (or believe) that I’ve left off a number of local “favorites”. I probably did. OR maybe they just aren’t as cool or good as you think they are 🙂

I haven’t even touched on many bars that I love in this neighborhood – but that’s another day –